Garden City, Flintshire

Garden City

Church building, Garden City
Garden City
Garden City shown within Flintshire
OS grid reference SJ326691
Principal area
Ceremonial county
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town DEESIDE
Postcode district CH5
Dialling code 01244
Police North Wales
Fire North Wales
Ambulance Welsh
EU Parliament Wales
UK Parliament
Welsh Assembly

Garden City is a village in the Sealand area of Flintshire, Wales. The village began as a planned community for workers at the nearby steel works in Shotton, in accordance with company policy to give their workers decent housing. The village was originally mean to be called "Sealand Garden Suburb" and was planned to be four times bigger, but construction was halted by the advent of the First World War.[1][2]

Wirral band OMD recorded the 1984 track "Garden City", a successor to 1981's "Sealand".

References

  1. "Queensferry Hotel, Garden City". History Points. 2012.
  2. Keith Atkinson (1998–2006). "History of Shotton - Chapter 14. Shotton In The 20th Century". Anglefire.


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